# Bruce Waller

bruce waller is a contemporary American philosopher notable for his theories about the nature of free will and its implications for human society. In 2016 he is a professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University. == Philosophy == Waller is a determinist who believes that everything that happens, had to happen, and could not have happened otherwise, and that all events are necessitated to happen by the process of cause and effect, that is, that past, present, and future consist of an essentially unbreakable chain of circumstances of which no single link in such a chain could possibly be avoided or altered.